Welcome To Equipping For Change Ministries
Where You Will Find Resources Needed For Change!
Equipping For Change Ministries is founded by Selena Mosley who is the mother of two adult sons and the grandmother of an nine year old girl.
She is a licensed minister, licensed in 1989 by Pastor Thurman Graves formerly of the Well Church International.
Selena struggled with same sex attraction for many years and lived openly as a lesbian for eight year attending churches that preached pro-gay theology.
Selena will always remember the Words of the Lord spoken through her Aunt Jannie when she told her that she decided to live as a lesbian, "Selena you are going to come out (of homosexuality) and when you do, you will bring thousands out with you."
She is now actively helping others especially Christians who struggle with homosexual desires to realize their deliverance and freedom from homosexuality through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Word of the Lord has and continues to come to pass. Selena has come out of the lifestyle and mind set of homosexuality and is helping others to do the same.
Equipping For Change Ministries seeks to help Christians who struggle with unwanted homosexual desires to connect to resources needed for change and to love and be loved God's way. She is the author of Selena's Self-Esteem Builders, a booklet written to help the Body of Christ know who they truly are in Christ Jesus.
Selena is a member of Fire and Rain Ministries where Prophetess Allison J. Cross is the Founder and Pastor.
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If you have formerly struggled with homosexuality or if you continue to struggle and desire freedom and taking steps to be free, you are invited to join our Set Free In Jesus Overcomer's Fellowship.
www.myspace.com/setfreeinjesuswww.myspace.com/efcmblogtalkradio
I invite you to listen to Nuggets For Deliverance Blog Talk Radio Program
Visit the website at anytime and listen to the archives.
Each program consist of 30 minutes of digging into God's Word for nuggets that will assist you in experiencing freedom from homosexuality and/or assist others to experience freedom.
www.blogtalkradio.com/equippingforchangeministries
Do Christians Struggle with Homosexuality?
Many believe that only non Christians struggle with homosexual attraction and desires. This is far from the truth, many men and women of God from the pulpit to the pew secretly struggle with habitual sin including homosexuality. There is great debate in the World and even in the Church, concerning the possibility of changing ones sexual identity. Many say that sexual identity can be changed and others say, absolutely not, sexual identity is fixed and unchangeable.
It is not the mission of Equipping For Change Ministry to debate or argue the possibility of change, for we believe that although no one chooses homosexual desires, change is possible for all who choose to do so. Hosea 4:6 says, "My people perish for lack of knowledge." The word perish used in Hosea 4:6, can also be translated as, "cut off". We are cut off from what we don't know. The mission of EFCM is to assist those who desire freedom from homosexuality to acquire the information that promotes knowledge for change. As you visit our website it is our prayer that you will leave here with knowledge needed for freedom homosexuality. If you don't struggle with same sex desires, it our prayer that you will leave here with information that will assist you in helping those who do struggle with compassion without compromise.
As you can see by the picture above the caterpillar looks nothing like what it will be. We too in the beginning of our Christian life do not appear as what we will be. The Scriptures tell us, "it does not yet appear what we shall be like but when He does appear we shall be like Him." God has equipped or given what is needed for change to all who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The Word change is defined as, " make or become different".
Like the butterfly our metamorphosis or change is progressive. The caterpillar goes through four stages of change. The egg, lava, pupa, and finally the adult butterfly. We may not be able to determine the stage of metamorphosis for the Christian as we do for the butterfly but like the butterfly our change is progressive. Many times as we are seeking change from habitual sin, we become discouraged because change is progressive. We don't like to deal with process of change and the pain that can accompany it.
We should learn from the butterfly who does not complain or become discouraged as it moves through each stage of its life. I have never heard the egg say to the lava, "I am just so tired of being an egg, why can't I be like you?" I have never heard the pupa in the cocoon complain about being in the cocoon too long. Nor have I ever heard tell of the butterfly looking down on the caterpillar as it flies by saying, why can't you be like me. Why are you still crawling around on the ground?" We as Christians must learn to be content in the stage of life that we are in. We must remember that it is God Who orders our steps. We must remember not to compare ourselves with others and to trust God that we are where He wants us to be in our stage of metamorphosis or change.
Above is a picture of a cocoon with a pupa within it. Although the caterpillar was created with everything it needs for metamorphosis, it can not and will not complete it's metamorphosis without cocooning itself. The Christian could learn well from the pupa, for although we are born again with everything we have need of to change from sinner to the sons and daughters of God, we will not appear to be the sons and daughters of God until we wrap, encase or cocoon ourselves in the Word of God. The caterpillar warps itself in the cocoon and does not worry about how long it will take to become the beautiful butterfly it was created to be. It stays in the cocoon until its change comes.
No matter what is going on outside the cocoon the pupa will not emerge until its appointed time. The winds may blow, the rain may fall and the pupa inside the cocoon may feel as if they are being bounced around but it will not emerge from the cocoon before its change has come.
We who are seeking change and freedom from homosexuality and other sinful addictive ways of living, must learn from the caterpillar and wrap ourselves in the cocoon of God's Word and stay there no matter what may come. The enemy will cause the winds of opposition to come and the rains of frustration to fall but we must make a commitment to stay encased or wraped up and cocooned in the Word of God. You see, the caterpillar knows that if it emerges from the cocoon before its metamorphosis takes place it will never become the beautiful butterfly it was created to be. In fact it will die.
If you emerge or unwrap yourself from the Word of God before your metamorphosis is complete you too will die or be separated from that which is the source of your change and metamorphosis will not be complete. When I say "die", I don't mean cessation of life, I am talking about a separation a separation of your source of life, that is the Word.
Although we are born with everything we have need of for change, we can't change without God.
Jesus said, " you can do nothing without Me." Jesus is the Word made flesh. (John 1:14) When you have completed your metamorphosis, you will never have to struggle with homosexuality again. I am not saying that you want ever be tempted again but I am saying that homosexuality will not be the struggle that it now is. You will continue the change process as long as you live, because there will always be something that we need to deal with so that we might look more like Him who created us and gave His life for us. Dont allow the frustrations of life chase you out of your Word cocoon.
Jesus said in John 16:33, " I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trial and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [ I have deprived it of the power to harm you and conquered it for you.]"
I want to encourage each of you to not compare yourself with others that appear to be maturing or progressing faster than you. Don't allow the enemy to condemn you because it seems that you are stuck where you are. Just stay in the cocoon and you will find yourself emerging appearing different than when you went in.
As you allow the Word to bring change to your life, you will find that not only are you transformed but you will help to transform the lives of those around you." For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome."
Responding To Pro-Gay Theology
Jesus and Homosexuality
Revisionist View:
"Jesus said nothing about homosexuality; therefore, it cannot have been a concern to Him."
Responses:
1. We have no way of knowing whether or not Jesus specifically mentioned homosexuality.
According t John’s Gospel, the world couldn’t hold the number of books that could be written about what Jesus did (John 21:25).
2. In the Gospels, we have no account of Jesus condemning spousal abuse, incest, or beastiality.
Clearly we would not assume those behaviors are legitimized because they’re not mentioned in the Gospel.
3. Jesus DID give clear explanation of God’s created intent for human sexuality in Matthew 19:4-6, indicating that marriage was meant to be independent, monogamous and heterosexual.
Paul and the Concept of "Natural"
"For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly..." (Romans 1:26-27, KJV).
Revisionist View:
"These were not true homosexuals; Paul condemns those who try to change what is natural to them."
Responses:
1. Paul’s use of the Greek "arsane" (men) and "thelais" (women) indicate an emphasis on biology rather than orientation, clarifying Paul’s intent: Their sexual behavior was biologically unnatural; orientation was not the issue.
2. Men in Roman’s 1 "burned in lust," indicating homosexuality was, in fact, "natural" to them.
3. No contingency exist in this chapter indicating that ANY of the sins listed herein could be allowable if they came "naturally" to the individual.
Paul and "Arsenokoite"
"Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind homosexual offenders,... shall inherit the Kingdom ..." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, (KJV). "The law is not for the righteous, but for the lawless and disobedient ... for whoremongers, for them defile themselves with mankind ... " (1 Timothy 1:9-11, KJV).
Revisionist View:
"Paul’s use of the term ‘arsenokoite’ indicates his condemnation of male prostitution, or general immorality, but not homosexuality."
Responses:
1. "Arsane" (male) and "koite" (couch or bed) do not indicate prostitution.
2. The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament widely in use ast Paul’s time) employs arsane and koite in reference to male homosexuality.
Context
Jesus predicted a time of considerable deception (Matthew 24:24).
Paul described a time in which truth would e unendurable, and in which people would prefer convenience to truth (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
"But if I were a Christian homosexual, this one question would disturb me: Am I interpreting Scripture in light of my proclivity, or should I be interpreting my proclivity in light of Scripture?" —Paul Morris, Shadow Of Sodom
(Taken from the Love Won out Conference Guide)
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